Town Board — Minutes

Town of Exeter Regular Board Meeting Monday, February 10, 2025 – 7:00PM Ted Fahey, Mark Gundlach, Kent Brauer, and Clerk Sass were present. Town members: Siegfried Eckhardt (Siggi), Eric Farrar - Belleville School District Business Manager, Tracey Glinski, Ken Roberts, Rick Diaz, Brian Diaz, Chris Backes, Marguerite Cardinal Rhode, Stephen Rohde, H.S. student Lillian Palmer, and Delynn Palmer Notice legally posted. Minutes: The minutes from January 13, 2025, regular meeting presented. Motion to approve January 13, 2025, regular meeting minutes (MG/KB), all in favor, motion passes. Treasurer Report: Dawn summarizes balance as of January 31, 2025: $823,848.11. Money Market funds gained $481.25 in interest. The balance is now $122,075.23. Motion to approve treasurer report (MG/KB), all in favor, motion passes. Announcements: Spring Primary is next week Tuesday, February 18, 2025. Supervisor report: Ted – nothing. Kent – nothing. Mark – Dawn and I spent all day at the WTA B.O.R. and legislative training. Our road funding went down slightly this year. Citizen Input: Siggi – broadband update, FCC approval of buyout of Frontier by Verizon. Fiber will be buried in the ground in Exeter within the next five years. By the end of this year, Verizon will begin mapping Green County. Fiber will be brought right to your garage ($45.00 to $55.00 per month). Green County has less concrete/asphalt to get through to get fiber into the ground. Committee Reports: Mark – no park meeting this month. Next meeting on March 4, 2025. Rick – I have $105.00 in donations from the tree lighting ceremony on December 8, 2024. No news about car shows this summer. Unfinished: • Cemetery lot policy – we have a request from a former town resident for Exeter to buy back his lots. Mark – Mr. Fensterman can sell his lot to someone, but we should not buy it back. No one else in the area buys back lots. Mr. Fensterman said that there are cemeteries that buy back lots at a higher rate because they are running out of space. Kent – what precedent are we setting? I agree with Mark; I do not think that we should be buying back people’s property. Motion that now and in the future Exeter will not buy back cemetery plots (MG/KB), all in favor, two ayes, one nay, motion passes. New Business: • Belleville School Referendum – Presentation from Eric Farrar, Ken Roberts, and Lillian Palmer on how the referendum was researched and why it is needed. The referendum will be on the April 1, 2025, ballot. More information can be found on the Belleville School District website. • Hughes C.U.P. – Motion to approve dog exercise yard conditional use permit as presented by the Plan Commission (MG/KB), all in favor, motion passes. • Bills – Motion to pay bills (KB/MG), all in favor, motion passes, Adjourn: Motion to adjourn, (MG/KB), all in favor, motion passes. Adjourned at 7:20PM Respectfully Submitted, Dawn Marie Sass, Clerk/Deputy Treasurer